AFTER THE CONVERSATION, THEY SAY GOOBYE WITH AN EMBRACE (Ao final da conversa eles se despedem com um abraço)

by Renan Brandão 2017/Brazil/20'

Elisa is a lecturer at university, and her partner is gravely ill. When young and good looking Michel, the new neighbour, appears, her desire is lit again, together with her will to live. An intimate and moving melodrama where to love equals to be reborn.

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PECULIAR TASTES

by José Héctor Carrillo Navarro 2018/Mexico/10'

Javier has an appointment with a prostitute, and he dictates very specific rules about what she has to wear, and is adamant about no sexual intercourse happening between them. What's his purpose? What's behind what from a distance just looks like a role play?

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AURORE

by Mael Le Mée 2017/France/18'

Aurore is sixteen years old and an insatiable desire to discover her own body and that of her boyfriend. However, something unsettling starts happening: she becomes able to penetrate the skin of anyone she touches with the fingers of her right hand. But this is just the beginning of her mutation...

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BECAUSE YOU'RE MINE

by Jean-Baptiste Huong 2018/France/12'

All that's left to Samuel from his ex-boyfriend is a letter. In order to read it, he leaves the city and goes hiding in a forest. But his past keeps coming to torment him, until an unexpected solution to his suffering, in the form of quivering, naked bodies, presents to him.

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BETWEEN THE LINES

by Maria Koneva 2017/Russia/4'

In the savannah, all the animals have a partner… except for one zebra, who feels alone and wanders in search of some company. No matter how hard it tries, its goal seems to be harder that expected. Will it succeed?

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SARA’S INTIMATE CONFESSIONS (Saras intime bestroesler)

by Emilie Blichfeldt 2018/Norway/22'

Sara is a big girl, and that's why she doesn't feel sexy and sexually inadequate, especially when she compares herself with the other students… but she finds a secret weapon as her vagina, in a mission to find the pleasure it deserves, starts talking to her.

FROSTBITE

by Laura Rämö, Luna Kuu, Martin Jäger 2018/Finland/18'

To have know each other for a very long time, and yet suddenly discovering attraction one for the other, engulfed by the heat of a sauna, whose boundaries dissolve and leaves the stage to bondage, is the heart of this episode of the series XConfessions, the first ever to be shot in Finland.

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SPEEDOS CLEPTOMANIAC

by Erika Lust 2018/Spain/17'

Who's the culprit that keeps stealing my swimsuit every time I go to the swimming pool? Erika Lust signs yet another episode of XConfessions, simply starting from this weird question. An encounter in the locker room, after all the plunges and the swimming, gives way to a hot intercourse.

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GUSH

by Kate Sinclaire 2018/Canada/15'

Squirting is not exclusively for those who have a vagina: after years of research and experiments on himself, this is the conclusion reached by Ciel, who has been able to prove that this is something that even who has a penis can achieve.

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LUMINOUS LUST

by Madison Young 2018/USA/5'

It seems that a picture sent over the smartphone is enough to spark desire between the two girls who star this short movie. But the game of seduction between them is actually something deeper and nothing as simple, where each one can find what truly arouses her.

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OUR ALPHABET

by Coco Schwartz, Alina Mann 2018/Switzerland/17'

What's the language of desire? 26 micro-episodes, each one defined by a letter and the corresponding sexual practice. It's up to the poetry and the evocativeness of the two bodies to whisper to us in this language.

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LAMENTO DELLA NINFA

by Matock 2018/France/7'

The Claudio Monteverdi's aria that names this short movie is sung during a session of BDSM domination. The singing of the main character is interrupted by his interjections of pain and pleasure, and then he is applauded with a pissing waterfall.

FACE THE STRANGE

by Christian Voldborg Andersen 2017/Denmark/10'

Fanaticism, heteronormativity, monogamy: the enemies he fights. Provocation: the propulsive power that drove him to pursue art. Welcome to Danish filmmaker Knud Vesterskov's world, with a retrospective on his career as a queer videoartist.

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THE INSECURITIES OF DILL

by Robert Trott 2017/United Kingdom/7'

Being treated as an object. Satisfying the sexual needs of a person you love without being loved in return. Dill's life is hard, and he's an unhappy vibrator. However, things are on the brink of change… or are they?

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WICKED WOMEN

by Anna Brownfield 2018/Australia/6'

When “Wicked Women”, a fanzine focused on lesbian and fetish universe, was launched in 1988, nobody could predict that it would become one of the most loved and revolutionary publishings in the Australian queer world. This is how it happened.

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SWITCH

by Marion Renard 2018/Belgium/18'

When a teenager is about to experience the long-awaited orgasm with a friend, he changes sex, just like slugs do. Is this just a surreal misfortune? A problem impossible to overcome? Maybe not, maybe it only depends on the point of view.

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JE LES AIME TOUS

by Guillaume Kozakieviez 2016/France/29'

Solange sells her body at home, notes down the characteristics of her customers meticulously, is writing a novel based on her own life, and has a difficult relationship with her daughter. A movie inspired by the life of Grisélidis Réal, French prostitute, writer and subversive.

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SIMBIOSIS CARNAL

by Rocío Álvarez 2017/Belgium/10'

In the history of humanity, female desire has always played a very marginal role. It's been neglected, censored to the point of negating its mere existence, and for centuries it has been a hidden taboo in our society. But what's the situation nowadays?

TRIBUTE

by Max Disgrace 2017/United Kingdom/7'

London, Abney Park cemetery. This is a cruising area for the London lesbian community, which has been portrayed in 1993 by Annette Kennerley in Sex, Lies, Religion. After more than 20 years, Max Disgrace and Lina Bembe want to show physically what they're looking for.

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THE END V.O.

by Noel Alejandro 2018/Germany/22'

The end of the relationship between Ivan and Javier is made even harder by thousands of memories that, like ghosts, are haunting Javier's house. Just before a last, desperate date, he finds the passion again with someone else. Starring Pierre Ëmo and Bishop Black.

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ALL EYEZ ON ME

by Julia Schönstädt 2018/United Kingdom/11'

The sound of footsteps on the stairs. Eye contact. Her perfume fills the air. Lust bursts out all of a sudden with the beautiful Caroline Flores and Andreena Angela, in this dreamlike, slick XConfessions.

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SCOTCH EGG

by Bruce LaBruce 2018/Spain/20'

The curiosity, expressed by a woman, of taking part in a gay porn movie. Homo hardcore master Bruce LaBruce makes this possible. A feast of muscles, tattoos, leather, studs and fist fucking to achieve a perfect balance of fetish.

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LEMON TASTE

by Nicky Miller 2018/Germany/9'

A body, then another one, and another one, and a last one. It's very arousing to witness how their interaction leads soon to sex. Are they connected by destiny, or is this a battuage zone? But most of all, is what's happening real, or is it just fantasy?

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TRIPLE P: POLITICAL PUSSY POUNDING

by Allie Oops 2018/USA/8'

Allie Oops, Canadian sex worker and performer, is on the set with her “colleague” Rooster: their tattooed bodies meet, intertwine, become one and create a common space where both can express freely their desire to reach pleasure and enjoy themselves.

SEX TAPES: LESSONS FROM A 7FT PENIS & FRIENDS

by Tamara Scherbak 2018/Canada/9'

Animation clips, archive materials and interviews revisit Norman Nawrocki's career, spanning over more than two decades. In his shows, the Canadian comedian and activist talks about sex from any point of view, in a hilarious and direct way.

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SIXTY NINE CLUB

by Rob Eagle 2018/United Kingdom/20'

In 1965, when homosexuality was still illegal, it was established in England the Sixty Nine Club, a gay organization dedicated to leather, denim and uniform lovers. What happened to the members of this peculiar club?

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PURE SCREEN (Pura pantalla)

by Javier Farías 2018/Venezuela, Argentina/8'

A bar, 4 single tables, a girl and 3 others having fun together with their smartphones and a man who is reading a book. A boy with a laptop enters and takes a sit. Technology becomes a tool of voyeurism. With sometimes unwanted consequences.

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BOTANICA

by Noël Loozen 2017/Netherlands/13'

Twan would like to become a dad, but the repeated sexual intercourses with his partner in the greenhouse where they work are unsuccessful. Finally, one night he resorts to a drastic solution. Which one? Let's find out with this hilarious and freakish short film.

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EGG

by Martina Scarpelli 2018/Italy/12'

A woman who lives in a cubic room is following a diet prescribed by her doctor. One day she finds herself forced to eat an egg. The initial repulsion turns into excitement and she swallows it. With unpredictable consequences.

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UNDER MOM’S SKIRT (Les Trompes De Ma Mère)

by Sarah Heitz de Chabaneix 2017/France/12'

Florida. Lucie takes her mother, Béatrice, who speaks only French, to the doctor, to act as an interpreter. When she finds out that they are seeing a gynaecologist, she starts to feel embarrassed. And this is just the beginning...

THE BIKE CLUB

by Poppy Sanchez 2018/Germany/28'

Three girlfriends and their bikes. Lustful and determined like pussycats from a Russ Meyer's movie, when they spot the handsome Dante Dionys rushing by, they know it's time for an orgy in the garage, among handlebars, inner tubes and frames. Produced by Erika Lust.

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WELCOME TO ATHENS

by Manelas Safiakas 2018/Greece/7'

Welcome to Athens, cradle of Western thought, a city that despite centuries of history, far from resting on the laurels of a glorious past, lives projected towards the future. What is its secret? Keeping alive one of the most renown traditions of the ancient Greeks...

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AN ILLICIT AFFAIR

by Goodyn Green 2018/Germany/20'

A relationship that was supposed to be over, leaving both free to marry their current respective partners. Then a casual encounter, and the spark lights up once again and turns into fire, concealed from everybody. This is the story that Imami tells XConfessions.

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THE CHEMO DARKROOM

by Harvey Rabbit 2018/Germany/17'

How to survive cancer? How to survive chemo and the transformations that it brings along? How to overcome the altered perception of our own body, with all its consequences, including those related to sex.

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DEAR BABE

by Ethan A. Folk, Ty Waldwell 2018/Germany/3'

There are a thousand ways to leave a message to a loved one. A letter might seem somewhat old-fashioned, but given a pot of yoghurt, a dildo and two girlfriends equipped with a strap-on and up for anything, it could be the most enticing method.

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INTOXICATE YOURSELF

by Candy Flip, Jo Pollux, Theo Meow 2018/Germany/6'

Charles Baudelaire's verses, translated by Aleister Crowley, fill the air while Candy Flip, Jo Pollux and Theo Meow, already at Fish&Chips in 2017 with Hanna & the Keta-Boys, follow their main credo: getting intoxicated. In any possible way.